Dyed and Gone
by Beth Yarnall
Book is on sale for just 99 cents through the 12th!
Well written and I love how captivated you were from the beginning.
~Shelley’s Book Case
~Shelley’s Book Case
Dyed and Gone
(Azalea March Mystery)
New Cozy Series
Publisher: Entangled: Select (March 25, 2014)
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1622661237
E-Book File Size: 1313 KB
ASIN: B00EBRDEYC
Synopsis
Hairstylist Azalea March is looking forward to a wild weekend in Las Vegas with her friends. Oh, sure, they’re supposed to be there on business, attending the biggest hair show on the west coast, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have a little fun. But fun quickly turns to drama. On the first morning of the show, Dhane, the biggest celeb of the hair-styling world, is found dead. As it urns out Azalea’s friend, Vivian, not only knew Dhane, but the tale she weaves of how they met is faker than a showgirl’s uh… assets. When Vivian confesses to the murder and is arrested, Azalea knows there’s no way she could have done it and suspects Vivian may be trying to protect someone. But who?
Azalea now has to convince Alex, the sexy detective from her past, to help her prove Vivian’s innocence and comb through clues more twisted than a spiral perm. But the truth is stranger than anything found on the Las Vegas Strip, and proving Vivian’s innocence turns out to be more difficult than transforming a brunette into a blonde.
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
My past slammed into
me like a rake handle to the
face, all six-foot-some-odd inches of what-ifs,
recriminations, and
abs so tight you could bounce a quarter off them.
“’Cause this day hasn’t sucked enough,” I muttered,
peeling
his fingers off my arms.
“Join the club,” Alex replied. “This day hasn’t exactly
been
beer and nachos for me either.”
Detective Alex Craig and I had had a very intense, but way
too
brief, attempt at a relationship. At least I’d thought it
was intense.
I’d been harboring a little crush on him since I’d first
met him a few
years ago, but it wasn’t until James’s party when Alex had
finally
noticed me. We’d gone out fairly steadily until a few
weeks ago
when all of a sudden he started canceling and postponing
dates or
running out in the middle of them when he actually did
show up.
On our last doomed date, I’d answered the door to his
retreating back and a quickly dashed off, “Sorry, gotta
go, I’ll call
you!” as he jogged back to his car. I’d considered it a
sign. A power
greater than us was clearly at work here, and we obviously
weren’t
meant to be.
I just wished he wasn’t so darned cute. Or such a good
kisser.
92 Dyed
and Gone
“What are you doing
here?” Don’t
do it. Don’t look up into
those pale baby blues.
Don’t…ah, damn.
“I’m here for Vivian.” He crossed his arms over his chest,
which made his shoulders double in width. “Why were you
lurking
in the shadows?”
“I wasn’t lurking.”
“Then what were you doing?”
I held up a finger. “Wait for it…”
He looked at me like I’d sniffed too much perm solution
and
was still riding the high.
“Huh. That’s so strange,” I said after a few moments of
his
phone not ringing and calling him away.
“I’d say the only thing strange here is you.”
“You know I didn’t even recognize you arriving. I’m so
used
to
you leaving.”
About This Author
Best selling author, Beth Yarnall, writes romantic suspense, mysteries and the occasional hilarious tweet. A storyteller since her playground days, Beth remembers her friends asking her to make up stories of how the person ‘died’ in the slumber party game Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, so it’s little wonder she prefers writing stories in which people meet unfortunate ends. In middle school she discovered romance novels, which inspired her to write a spoof of soap operas for the school’s newspaper. She hasn’t stopped writing since.
For a number of years, Beth made her living as a hairstylist and makeup artist and co-owned a salon. Somehow hairstylists and salons always seem to find their way into her stories. Beth lives in Orange County, California with her husband, two sons, and their rescue dog where she is hard at work on her next novel.
Author Links
Website: http://www.bethyarnall.com/
Twitter: @BethYarnell
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Book Links
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Guest Post:
Quirky Facts About Las Vegas
My novel Dyed and Gone is set in Las Vegas where anything
can and does happen. But did you know about these quirky facts about Sin City?
1) There’s
a service that will come to wherever you are and administer a hangover cure of IV
fluids and vitamins.
2) There
is a ‘heavy equipment playground’ where you can drive bulldozers and
earthmoving equipment for fun.
3) There
is a secret city under Las Vegas that is inhabited by nearly 1000 people in a
massive tunnel system that runs underneath the famous strip.
4) In
1992, a man named Archie Karas went to Vegas, turned $50 into $40,000,000, and
then promptly lost every penny.
5) Most
of the Las Vegas Strip and nearly all of the top casinos are not actually in
Las Vegas.
6) Most
casinos in Las Vegas will cash in chips from a different casino.
7) Customers
weighing over 350 pounds eat for free at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. And one customer actually had a
heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger at the Heart Attack Grill.
8) On
average, around 10,000 people get married in Las Vegas every month (including
two of the characters in Dyed and Gone!).
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April 15 – rantin’ ravin’ and reading – Review, Guest Post
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April 17 – Brooke Blogs – Guest Post
April 18 – Chloe Gets A Chloe – Interview
April 20 – Easter
April 21 – Socrates’ Book Reviews – Review
April 22 – readalot blog – Review
April 23 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – Interview
April 24 – Traci Andrighetti’s blog – Guest Post
April 25 – Community Bookstop – Review
April 28 – Michele Lynn Seigfried’s Blog – Review, Guest Post
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